I remembered.
Did you?
3 pm
2
I’m thinking this poll was taken in urban areas
I mean, they found that most people don’t even know what we celebrate on Memorial Day, among other revelations. This sort of ignorance is more common among Urban folks (of all races, so don’t go there) than among rural folk. Most urban dwellers just think it an extra day off…
Check it out, and decide for yourself. I bet that if they took the poll in the Heartland of America, they’d find a lot of different responses.
Remember
At 3 PM local time, pause, take a moment. Raise a glass.
If you are with friends, help them to remember as well.
But remember. Remember the sacrifice.
Then go enjoy your cookout on your extra day this weekend.
But do remember, if nothing else.
Last night we got RAIN
5 inches in 16 minutes. Northwest Indiana.
At one point the electronic rain gauge showed a rain rate of 24 inches per hour.
Total was a bit over 6 inches. Plus tornadoes to the north a few miles.
At one point the electronic rain gauge showed a rain rate of 24 inches per hour.
Total was a bit over 6 inches. Plus tornadoes to the north a few miles.
My bother got two storm cells an hour apart….about 8 inches total. He’s done with rain for a while.
Despite the reporting though, the land here is too flat to give us “Flash Floods”…. Water does rise when that amount of rain falls in such a short time, but it isn’t true Flash Flooding. Not even in the city at the underpasses.
And a hint for folks: “Turn Around, Don’t Drown”
If the water is moving, never go deeper than 1/4 of your tire…in other words when the water is deep enough that 1/4 of your tie is underwater, stop, turn around.
If it touches the bottom of your door, then stop, turn around.
Failure to do so can (and often will) lead to massive damage to your car, and can leave you stranded in a low area where the water will continue to rise.
Sadly, my first thought was “Not an accident”
I actually at first thought it might be attempted Arkancide.
And I find that sad, really. It might just be an accident.
But West has been a voice for Freedom for a long time, and he has pissed off a LOT of folks on the left.
Once is happenstance….
Twice is coincidence.
Three times?
I fully expect the ABCBSNBCSN/CNN group to start bleating this mistruth to us shortly.
So it began a week ago on Ms. Misfit’s “Orange Man Bad” blog.
The meme that all these people died because, (of course) Trump somehow failed to act quickly enough….Despite the fact that when he began to act, the (ahem) “loyal opposition” decried every step he took as too much, too soon, worthless or ineffective, etc.
And the number she used, which she apparently got from the New York Times (who “estimated that using some pretty sketchy data) was 50,000 dead.
Then, yesterday, I got 4 robocalls from liberal and/or Democratic politicians claiming. that Trump’s inaction caused many deaths and we should do something about it.
Today, 6 calls (so far) also doing the same bleating that Trump, through his inaction, had caused many deaths. and this whole coronavirus debacle is his (and his alone) fault.
2 issues:
I am not even in the district for these politicians…..I am on the Do Not Call list, which oddly enough, the politicians carved out an exemption for themselves on when they did that legislation….
Second, all of the above politicians have chosen to ignore the slew of deaths (around 36 thousand, BTW….40% of the total) that were nursing home residents in both New York and in Michigan where their (very) blue, Democrat, governors forced nursing homes to admit (or re-admit) patients that had tested positive for coronavirus, spreading that disease to a most vulnerable population…the elderly. Odd, innit, how that is ignored. 36,000 deaths that can be laid at the feet of Cuomo and Whitmer…but they don’t mention that
This must, of course, just be coincidence…couldn’t be a planned misinformation campaign. Never happen.
I mean, there is partisan, there is twisted presentation, then there is mistruths and outright lies.
You figure out which this meme is, or what it will morph into.
Feelin’ special.
It used to be “gluten intolerant” wher folks had never been tested for Celiac’s disease, but foloowed the trend…
Now the big words people seem to use to feel special atre “immune compromised”.
Which means nothing, really.
Except it is another excuse not to do something and to feel special.
I’ve asked several folks what they mean when they say “immune compromised” and they all get pissy ’cause they don’t really know. It’s just a phrase they use to feel part of the herd, only moreso than the rest of us….
Out of nothing
As I suspected:
‘I mean the two-metre rule was conjured up out of nowhere.’
The above pretty much describes the entire response to the Covid-19 “Pandemic” by those we pay to keep us safe…..Making shit up as they went along, and following what others did with no science whatsoever.
And I still want to know how a 2 week “Flatten the Curve” became 2 or more moths of “lockdown” (that wasn’t a lockdown)…and why Target and Wal-Mart and car dealerships are “safe” when other places (like barbershops, and restaurants) are not….
Plus from comments a few posts down, there is THIS…all based on a high school paper done by a 14 year old girl.
So, again, pretty much no science nor logic involved in the decisionmaking process.
Y’know,
I have read the Constitution. Over and over. A copy of it hangs on my hallway wall.
And nowhere in those (to me) sacred words do I see anything that says “These rights are invalid because some person claims an emergency”,
Just sayin’.
There is intelligent choices and smart behavior, but in the end the Federal, State, and local governments don’t get to subvert the Constitution.
I’d like to see the “science”
So where, exactly did the whole 6 foot distancing thing come from?
Was it determined by a study? Did that study take into account air currents?
I’d like to see the science behind the choice of 6 foot as the appropriate distance….especially indoors and at restaurants and such.
Or was that just something else that the CDC made up on the fly?
Anyone know?